Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
Disclaimer :I don't own Overlord.
Chapter 1
The wind was striking the man's face, his grey eyes looking somewhere below, his long black hair flapping with the breeze.
The man was of average height, his shoulders slender and his body was clothed in what looked like a black exoskeleton armor, a helmet was lying under his hand.
The wind blew stronger as the shuttle the man stood on descendad lower toward the ground bellow.
All around him more shuttles were loosing altitude, moving fast toward the ground the great falcons on their hulls reflected the light of the sun.
"Phantom squad this is Falcon 1, prepare for jumping we will be over Washington shortly"
"Roger that" the man said as he put his helmet on.
"Were up boys" he said into his comm.
"Roger that phantom lead , phantom one ready"
"Phantom two ready"
"Phantom three ready"
The other phantoms quickly affirmed their readiness.
"Phantom lead this is falcon 1, we are over Washington.. Good luck sir" the pilot of the small fighter wished the black haired man.
"You too falcon one" was the reply before he turned to the other phantoms "That's out cue boys.. Jump" he said before he jumped from the extended ramp his armor protecting him from the worst of the wind pressure.
"Activate stealth fields"
"Roger"
The soft humm of the the stealth field generator was the only indication that the field was activated.
Phantom lead smiled under his helmet as the wind picked up the closer they got to the ground. The landscape was suddenly visible, he could see the buildings of Earth's capital and the defensive turrets around it.
The ground came closer and closer until they were all around five hundred meters above the ground.
"Jet packs on" he commanded as his own activated, colorless smoke the only indicator that they worked.
Coming out of the dive the twelve solderis arrived unnoticed by the republican forces who were patrolling the area.
The group entered through one of the hangers into the command center of the capital were their mission leid.
"Phantom squad .. You know our mission boys..let's do it as subtle as possible" he said looking up to the skies beyond which he knew a space battle was happening as the forces of the British empire or as it was called now the Venus empire were fighting the forces of the earth republic.
"Roger that sir" was his reply before they all entered the facility.
Consulting the map they were able to acquire, phantoms lead moved forward careful not to trigger any alram. However he discovered it was not possible any longer what with all the detectors across the doors.
The man signed deeply before he addressed the others "We're going into the open guys.. Take them down and move toward our objectives... We need to at least disable those defenses" he took deep breath, thanking heavens for the new cloaking device that allowed them to come this far without struggle before he spoke just one another sentence to the comm "For Britain!" he called before he looked at his wrist "Code accses 005 AR" he said and a gun materialized in his hand.
It was a short assault rifle which was connected to his helmet via link helping him with the aiming.
"For Britain!" the other eleven soldiers called together before they came out of stealth shooting the moving solderis around them.
What happened next could only be described as utter panic and chaos as the twelve solderis moved through the enemy forces, vanishing from time to time only to appear behind the Republicans and shooting them down.
"This A squad..." one of the solderis tried to call for assistance only to be gunned down by one of the British soldiers.
"It's the phantoms!" one republican soldier called "SOS! We need alpha group here!" he was able to call before a plasma bolt left a gaping hole in his head courtesy of phantom lead.
"Forward! We are close to our objective!" he called as his sensors indicated the next chamber was full of soldiers.
"Yes Sir!" the others roared.
"Code accses 006 TG" he said quietly as a termo granade appeared in his hands as he approached the door.
One of the soldiers, his armor as black as the leaders took position near the door as he started to plant explosive on the doors.
When he finished he moved to the side and after a thumb up from the leader the explosive detonated, immediately a series of plasma bolts flew from the chamber but the soldiers were not near it.
As the hail of shots subsided Phantom leader through the granade before rolling to the now destroyed door while starting to shoot.
The explosion killed some of the defenders, but also served as a distraction to let the solderis move in and shoot them all.
"Phantom 4 injured" came from the comm.
"Phantom 5 treat his injuries, 3 and 7 stay back to defend them.. We are moving forward" the leader said curtly.
"Roger."
As the four phantoms stayed back, the eight others continued forward, and after some more skirmish and several more dead soldiers and hacked systems they finally arrived at the control room were several minutes later the four others joined them.
" Phantom 2 it's your turn" the lead soldier said and the soldier obeyed approaching the control panel his hands moving quickly accros the keyboard before he inserted a small flash drive.
"Baricade the entrance and move to formation c!" came the curt order.
The others took positions of defense around the entry putting some energy shields around.
The officer nodded "Code accses 003AA Titan armor" he said followed by all the others.
There armor changed, it was as black as the other one but was more bulky and instead of a stealth generator it had several heavy energy shields generators.
"Sir" the voice of the hacker phantom reached over the comm "It's done.. All the defensive equipment is offline... I will begin working on reprogramming" he said as he turned around.
The officer smiled under his helmet.. It was time for the big battle to start "Glasgow.. This is phantom lead.. Do you hear me?" he asked.
A second of buffering before his comm link returned to life "We hear you loud and clear phantom lead. What is your situation?"
Lead chuckled "Operation Shadow strike is complete over".
"We've noticed phantom lead.. Good job. Group army X are already on their way.. However the enemy surly noticed the defenses are down... Be ready for an assault. Glasgow out"
The commander turned to the others "Get ready guys.. We need to hold this point until the army will arrive" he told them before he turned around activating his shields and accessing another command code brought a heavy gun which was obviously modified for his personal style. Falling to one knee he took a deep breath as he heard quick footsteps coming toward them.
"And.. Fire" he commanded.
What happened after that could only be described as utter chaos.
The enemy fought well and their superior numbers gave them advantage even though their granades were mostly ineffective due to the titan armor shields.
However the defenders had the advantage of strategic placement and their superior training and equipment giving them a huge advantage against the superior numbers of republican soldiers.
Phantom lead shot another soldier who tried to pick in. In front of him were several dozens of dead, pierced by the plazma heat. But unfortunately some of his phantoms were taken down as well. One, six and ten were dead while seven and eleven were injured.
He cursed under his breath won't there be any good news?
As if to answer his question phantom two turned to his commander "Sir all defenses but the planetary shield are back online and reprogrammed to aid our forces" the man reported.
"Good job phantom two.. Now come here and help us"
"Roger"
From there it didn't take long to the full force of the group army X to arrive and liberate the special forces.
It took another week but finally Washington was in their hands.
The emperor a young brown haird man addressed the soldiers with a passionate speech about the importance of liberating earth from the hands of the republic.
As he finished the speech the emperor finished his speech with a passionate call of "All hail Britania!"
His call was answered by thousands of soldiers.
"All hail Britania!"
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Two weeks later, Paris.The phantom set silently as he looked from the scope of his sniper at his target, the leader of the republic.
The man was tall with a short brown hair and blue eyes. His face was full of worry but he spoke with passion to the people gathered beneath the podium he stood on.
"People of earth! We are in a grave danger! The vile empire of Venus h captured Washington but we won't let them take us down! They might be better equipped but we have the numbers! Who is ready to rise with me?! Who will defend his home from the vile invader! Who will fight For the republic!? "he called.
The crowd answered him with great cries.
" For the republic! "
Phantom smiled darkly when a transmission came to his comm" Phantom lead.. You have green light "
" Understood "the man said as he pulled the trigger releasing a beam of overheated plazma toward the man's head, killing him on the spot.
Without waiting to see the panic that took the place of the joy and determination of just a moment ago, the phantom left the area.
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The capitulation of the republic happend three days after the assassination of the president of the republic.
Phantom lead stood in the halls of the white house in Washington, dressed in noble clothes with a sigil of a black raven with crossed blades behind it.
His long black hair was neatly combed with a black ribbon with golden lining, his grey eyes scanning the people in front of him.
There were two. One was a tall man with bku hair of all things clothed in a black suit. The other man was old with wrinkles all over his face in butler clothes.
"Are you going to sign the capitulation of the republic?" the soldier in noble clothing asked.
The younger man nodded reluctantly as he moved forward and lifting the pen he signed down the declaration of surrender.
As he did a message appeared in front of them in large red letters.
" Congratulations Planet earth now belongs to the faction: The British Empire"
Under it another message appeared.
"The Earth Republic faction is now dissolved"
"Conquest now over"
The blue haired man sighed as he moved closer to the young soldier and extended his hand to the noble "Well played Alstreim" he said with a smile "Your technology is truly superior.. How did you come up with those stealth generator?" he asked.
The man smiled "come on.. We should talk private".
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Alistair Alstreim stood in his personal star ship as he looked at world outside.
This was Stardust.. The best Dmmo. Created by Regnal.Inc the creators of Yggdrasil.
If Yggdrasil was the dream of fantasy lovers Stardust was for the sci-fi lovers.
The game consisted of the entire milky way, taking place in a world were humanity lived all across the space.
Players could create their own factions if they concurred a planet. The games mechanics had a crazy amount of crafting which involved finding blue prints or the player coming with their own technology which was quite more difficult but still possible.
Instead of the regular inventory the game gave a wrist band which was activated by command phrases. It was basically a super computer which made things out of pure data.
The game was popular for fourty years but just like its sister game was getting shut down.
Alistair sighed deeply.. They had fourty eight hours before the game was going to be shut down and the emperor who was the guild leader decided to do a great event out of it.
He would be heading there soon.. After all a great Duke of the empire couldn't just miss the last ball in the game now could he?
A small smile toog on his lips as made himself comfortable within the ship .. His destination was Venus.
He sighed deeply as more memories of the game came to the for front of his mind.
The conquests... When he got his title... His friends..
He smiled lightly.. He will definitely have many fond memories of this world.
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The music was playing and the people were dancing.
The room was lit brightly with hundreds of chandeliers which spread soft light over the ballroom.
Alistair stood in front of his guild master, the emperor of Britania and all its colonies.
"So that's it" the man said with a sad smile "It's going to be difficult to stop being an emperor" he chuckled slightly.
Alistair nodded sagely "I can only imagine.. But everything good has its end" he said with a smile.
The emperor chuckled "Indded" he said sipping from the goblet some fine Marsian wine.
"In any case old freind.. I have to leave.. There isn't much I have left here.. Who knows maybe we will meet each other again" he said with a smile on his face.
The monarch chuckled "Who knows.. However maybe stay at least to the national anthem?" he asked /requested.
Alistair nodded finally "Very well.. However I still think we shouldn't have used All hail Britania as our national anthem... Reminds me too much of the anime... What is it called? Oh yeah Code geass" he chukled.
The man nodded, before rising up to adrees his people.
"Proud people of Britain... We are coming to the end of our time in this wonderful world!It was a pleasure to know you all.. I hope we will meet again one day. For now let us sing our national anthem one last time!" he called.
The orchestra automatically changed the tune to the national anthem and the entire room turned together toward the ruler of the strongest guild in all Stardust.
The music became heavy as the first part was sang.
Truth and hope in our Fatherland!
And death to every foe!
Our soldiers shall not pause to rest
We vow our loyalty
The vocals went higher, the people were singing with all their heart.. Knowing this was most likely their last time to sing it together.
Old traditions they will abide
Arise young heroes!
Our past inspires noble deeds
All Hail Britannia!
Immortal beacon shows the way
Step forth,seek glory!
Hoist your swords high into the clouds
Hail Britannia!
Our Emperor stands astride this world
He'll vanquish every foe!
His truth and justice shine so bright
All hail his brilliant light!
Never will he be overthrown
Like mountains and sea
His bloodline immortal and pure
All Hail Britannia!
The flag of the empire was raised up and some people started to cry. For many this was their true home. They sang the anthem repeating it until they arrived to the last part
Alistair who's beautiful voice was well known in the empire took the microphone and sang the last part.
So let his wisdom guide our way
Go forth and seek glory
Hoist your swords high into the clouds
Hail Britannia!
When they came to the last part everyone fell to their knee and looking up at the emperor who brought them all together said the last words together.
"Hail Britania!!"
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Alistair came out of the game his eyes were full of tears. He looked up at his screen and a smile appeared on his face.
It was a well known fact that the engine and software of Stardust and Yggdrasil were the same.. Which only meant that it was technically possible to use ones avatar in the other game but no one tried for the fear of being banned.
But now.. Now he could literally do it.. There was no reason not to try.. The game was shooting down anyway.
After a quick go to the bathroom the black haired boy took his place near the computer and with a smile on his face he started to tap the keyboard.
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It took him six hours but he finally succeeded.
He connected himself back to the Dmmo interface before closing his eyes.. This was his chance... He couldn't wait to see how well it will work.
And without a word he activated the game.
End of chapter 1.
Disclaimer :I don't code geass either nor the song. Nor do I own the name of the story.
